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Leaving Gee's Bend /

Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Latham, Irene
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2010]
Subjects:
African American girls > Juvenile fiction.
People with visual disabilities > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Quilting > Juvenile fiction.
Quilts > Juvenile fiction.
Alabama > History > 1819-1950 > Juvenile fiction.
African American girls > Fiction.
People with visual disabilities > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Quilting > Fiction.
Quilts > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Alabama > History > 1819-1950 > Fiction.
Description
Summary:Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.
Physical Description:230 pages ; 22 cm.
Audience:010-up.
Lexile: 700.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227).
ISBN:9780399251795
0399251790